Nulli Secundus

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $10.95

Stock #:773486
Type: Postcard
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Nulli Secundus was built at the Army Balloon Factory at Aldershot. Its length was about 110 ft. and its motor, 50 h.p. some successful short trips were made with this airship and eventually in 1907 it sailed ot London where it manoevered over the city, circling round St. Paul's Cathedral. It then successfully descended in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, where however, it had to be cut open to save it from being blown away in a gale of wind.

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